RE: How do I get the User-Name instead of ID in email notification (html)

Dave259 — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:35:15 GMT

Hi Chris,

thank you for your competent and detailed answer. It worked at the first try 😃

Regards,

Dave

RE: How do I get the User-Name instead of ID in email notification (html)

Christopher Gillis — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:24:12 GMT

Hi Dave,

The variables that you're using inside of the E-Mail Message item fields basically represent XPath expressions to the data you're looking for. With this in mind, I'd recommend first just running a simple AML query on your Part to see what the format of the result is and what information you have access to. This should help you better figure out how to access the name of the creator of the Part. If you're new to Aras or just unfamiliar with AML, I'd recommend checking out our intro blog post.

In this case, we just want to run a simple get on our Part to see what the result looks like. I've included a sample AML request below on a test part in one of my local instances. Note that I've used an intentionally specific select attribute to keep the size of the result down for demonstration purposes.

AML:

<AML>

<Item type="Part" action="get" select="created_by_id">

<item_number>My Part</item_number>

</Item>

</AML>

Result:

<Item type="Part" typeId="4F1AC04A2B484F3ABA4E20DB63808A88" id="5AC23F6FFDCF4F7C83A88DC04CBD50A0">

<created_by_id keyed_name="Terry Adams" type="User">18DF23B3851D4C9FA1B96E9CF1F585A8</created_by_id>

<id keyed_name="My Part" type="Part">5AC23F6FFDCF4F7C83A88DC04CBD50A0</id>

<itemtype>4F1AC04A2B484F3ABA4E20DB63808A88</itemtype>

</Item>

As we can see from the results, it looks like we can access the name of the creator through the keyed_name attribute of the created_by_id property. Using XPath, you can get the value of an attribute by using an expression that ends with /@attribute_name. In this case, if you can access the ID of the creator using ${created_by_id}, you should be able to access the name of the creator using ${created_by_id/@keyed_name}.

Chris

Christopher GIllis

Aras Labs Software Engineer